The Death of Judas

This is exactly how I imagined it.  

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Last Night’s Episode of Lost: Mind/Body Problem?

*Spoiler Alert*
So, Desmond traveled to the future from 1996 to 2004.  This was no ordinary time travel though (as if such a thing exists).  His was a travel through the conscience.  Because of a super-electromagnetic stimulus his mind was able to pass between past and future (albeit chaotically).  This was one of my favorite episodes [...]

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Earning Salvation

What do people mean by this?
Earn:  This could mean either to work hard to receive a reward from someone or to work hard to receive your wages.  Paul says in Romans 4:4, “Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.”  Jesus did not work for [...]

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Aquinas: Two Ways of Christ’s Reconciliation of Man

It is important to ask if sin is an ontological reality rather than an exclusive legal reality. To ask this is also to ask if man’s relationship to God is effected by the nature of man’s reflecting God’s own image.  Aquinas’ distinction in two ways is helpful:
On the part of Christ he [Paul] writes of [...]

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Salvation and Metaphor

According to Gordon Fee Paul’s language of redemption, propitiation, reconciliation, etc. is metaphorical because, “for Paul salvation is an especially theological reality, in the sense that it is both a reflection of God’s character and the result of God’s initiative.” [1] In as far as salvation is a reflection of God’s character [...]

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